Comment by simonw
2 days ago
See https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 for when it was coined by Andrei Karpathy.
I've written more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/ and here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/23/semantic-diffusion/
It is so hard to reconcile my view of Karpathy as a world class instructor who does great things like making you work out gradients via the chain rule even though you don't need to anymore with this version of Karpathy.
They're the same person. He's just a techno-optimist and interested in teaching.
Thanks for the reply.
But I really detest the ever-growing universe of unnecessarily obscure slang. It's not clever and not informative. Good slang is akin to a word that you can figure out from its Latin origins; it makes sense, might be clever, and you can figure it out if you think about it.
This is just douchey.
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Because the whole point of writing and publishing things online is that you don't have to type out the same explanations time and time again.
Because it allows readers to get the information straight from the source, instead of relying on some random unsourced comment that's probably going to mangle the definition of a term as nebulous as "vibe coding".
I clicked that link for you so you don't have to:
"There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard."
Instead of complaining, why don't you click the link that was spoon fed directly to your cursor for the canonical answer within 3 seconds?
Because the effort needed to summarize the content of the links is barely more than posting them in the first place.
Who knows what kind of time wasting is on the other side of a link these days either.. Dark pattern cookie pop-ups, subscription pop-ups, intrusive ads, account registration demands, pay walls, etc..
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